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Elihu D. Seaton, an old artilleryman of the Confederate service, was born in Wayne County, Tenn., July 10, 1832, to the union of Samuel and Sarah (Baker) Seaton, natives of Alabama and Tennessee, respectively. Samuel Seaton was married twice. His first wife died in Commerce, Miss., after which he moved to DeSoto County, Miss., where he lived a number of years. He died in Oxford, Lafayette County, of that State, about 1882, at the age of ninety-four, having served in the War of 1812, for which his widow now draws a pension. E. D. Seaton moved to Henderson County, Tenn., in 1851, and was there married to Miss Irena Shakelford, a native of that State. Remaining there until the next year, he then went to Panola County, Miss., and was engaged as an overseer on a plantation until 1861, when he enlisted in the Confederate service, first in the sixty-days’ troops and afterward in Ward’s artillery in Company A, under Capt. C. B. Vance, serving until after the siege of Vicksburg, when he was transferred to a cavalry company. He lost an arm shortly afterward and then returned home in August, 1864. In November, 1872, Mr. Seaton moved to Arkansas and located in Lonoke County, being engaged in farming up to 1878, when he came to Lonoke and carried on the livery business about a year. He then removed to Richwoods Township, and has been conducting a place of about 300 acres for the last ten years. In December, 1889, he again embarked in the livery business in Lonoke, after having sold his farm, and bought a residence near his stable, and has also contracted for a quarter section of land in Richwoods Township. Mr. Seaton having lost his first wife in 1860, married his present companion, Talith C. Martin, a native of Mississippi, on March 3, 1862. By his first marriage he was the father of two children: Sarah A. (widow of W. A. O’Daniel, deceased) and Mary Ann (wife of James H. Allen). By his second union he had eight children, five of whom are living: Ella J. (wife of R. L. Sawyers), Samuel E., James H., Lee M. and Virginia. Mr. and Mrs. Seaton are members of the Baptist Church, to which they have belonged for over twenty years. The former is also connected with the Knights of Honor.